Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The crackdown — the second closure of major card fraud shops by Russian authorities in as many weeks — comes closely behind Russia’s arrest of 14 alleged affiliates of the REvil ransomware gang , and has many in the cybercrime underground asking who might be next. K’s message for Trump’s Dumps users.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. RedBear’s service is marketed not only to malware creators, but to people who rent or buy malicious software and services from other cybercriminals. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

And in March 2023, Faceless started marketing a service for looking up Social Security Numbers (SSNs) that claims to provide access to “the largest SSN database on the market with a very high hit rate.” MrMurza’s Faceless advertised on the Russian-language cybercrime forum ProCrd. Image: Darkbeast/Ke-la.com.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. com was hosted at a company in Moscow with just a handful of other domains phishing popular cybercrime stores, including Jstashbazar[.]com, com, vclub[.]cards,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The now-defunct homepage of xtb-market[.]com, Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com Platinum plans on xtb-market promised a whopping 45 percent ROI, with a minimum investment of $265,000. The now-defunct xtb-market[.]com. When those generated hefty returns, Nolan made bigger deposits.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But judging from the proliferation of help-wanted ads for offensive pentesters in the cybercrime underground, today’s attackers have exactly zero trouble gaining that initial intrusion: The real challenge seems to be hiring enough people to help everyone profit from the access already gained. THE DOCTOR IS IN.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

” On March 3, 2023, a denizen of the now-defunct cybercrime community BreachForums posted a thread which noted that a unique component of the malicious app code highlighted by DarkNavy also was found in the ecommerce application whose name was apparently redacted from the DarkNavy analysis: Pinduoduo.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

re is was one of the original “residential proxy” networks, which allow someone to rent a residential IP address to use as a relay for his/her Internet communications, providing anonymity and the advantage of being perceived as a residential user surfing the web.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

And a great many of these “proxy” networks are marketed primarily to cybercriminals seeking to anonymize their traffic by routing it through an infected PC, router or mobile device. KrebsOnSecurity briefly visited SocksEscort last year and promised a follow-up on the history and possible identity of its proprietors. com , segate[.]org

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. 911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

All of the card data stolen from BriansClub was shared with multiple sources who work closely with financial institutions to identify and monitor or reissue cards that show up for sale in the cybercrime underground. The black market value, impact to consumers and banks, and liability associated with different types of card fraud.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 16, 2019

For at least the past decade, a computer crook variously known as “ Yalishanda ,” “ Downlow ” and “ Stas_vl ” has run one of the most popular “bulletproof” Web hosting services catering to a vast array of phishing sites, cybercrime forums and malware download servers.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 21, 2022

Up for the "Most Meta Cybercrime Offering" award this year is Accountz Club, a new cybercrime store that sells access to purloined accounts at services built for cybercriminals, including shops peddling stolen payment cards and identities, spamming tools, email and phone bombing services, and those selling authentication cookies for a slew of popular (..)

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2022

” While CLOP as a money making collective is a fairly young organization, security experts say CLOP members hail from a group of Threat Actors (TA) known as “TA505,” which MITRE’s ATT&CK database says is a financially motivated cybercrime group that has been active since at least 2014.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Like most cybercrime forums, OGUsers is overrun with shady characters who are there mainly to rip off other members. Among the top seller accounts targeted in the ban wave was the Instagram account belonging to Ryan Zanelli ( @zanelli ), a 22-year-old self-described “ social media marketing specialist ” from Melbourne, Australia.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

in cybercrime forums, Telegram channels throughout 2020. “There’s been a real shift in the market from data-centric identity verification to verifying through something you have and something you are, like a phone or face or ID,” he said. protections. Mentions of id.me Source: Flashpoint-intel.com.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email inboxes per day, and apparently does little else with this access except siphon gift card and customer loyalty program data that can be resold online. .

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